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248.01quasimodo, royal, sago, tango, umber, vanilla, wisteria, xray,
248.01+Latin quasi modo: as if in the manner
248.01+Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame
248.01+royal blue
248.01+tangerine
248.01+umber: a brown earth used as a pigment
248.01+wisteria: blue-violet flower
248.01+x-ray (colourless)
248.02yesplease, zaza, philomel, theerose. What are they all by? Shee.
248.02+(phi and theta from Greek alphabet) [147.14]
248.02+Philomela, in Ovid, ravished by Tereus and became nightingale
248.02+Dutch theeroos: tearose
248.02+Anglo-Irish shee: fairy
248.02+(29th name; Motif: 28-29)
248.03     If you nude her in her prime, make sure you find her comple-
248.03+{{Synopsis: II.1.6.C: [248.03-249.20]: Izod tries to help him — giving him cryptic clues to her colour}}
248.03+knew
248.03+primary colours
248.03+complementary colours
248.03+complimentary
248.04mentary or, on your very first occasion, by Angus Dagdasson
248.04+Aengus, Angus: Irish love-god, son of Dagda
248.04+C.L. Dodgson: Lewis Carroll's real name
248.05and all his piccions, she'll prick you where you're proudest with
248.05+(bright birds hover over Aengus's head)
248.05+Italian piccioni: pigeons
248.05+suspicions
248.05+Slang proud: horny
248.06her unsatt speagle eye. Look sharp, she's signalling from among
248.06+German unsatt: unsatisfied
248.06+German Spiegel: Dutch spiegel: mirror
248.06+German Spiegelei: Dutch spiegelei: fried egg
248.06+eagle eye
248.06+(rather obscure clues to her colour (Motif: heliotrope)) [248.06-249.17]
248.06+(clue #1; Motif: heliotrope) [.06-.08]
248.06+(miming 'helio')
248.06+Slang HELIO: heliograph, apparatus for signalling by means of a movable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight to a distance
248.07the asters. Turn again, wistfultone, lode mere of Doubtlynn!
248.07+Latin aster: star
248.07+aster: type of flower of the same colour as HELIOTROPE
248.07+Greek TROPOS: turning
248.07+pantomime Dick Whittington and His Cat: 'Turn again, Whittington, Lord-Mayor of London' [.33]
248.07+wistful: full of melancholy yearning
248.07+Wolfe Tone: famous 18th century Irish revolutionary, one of the founders of the Society of United Irishmen, the main force behind the Irish Rebellion of 1798
248.07+mother lode: principal vein of ore; major source of something of value
248.07+French mère: mother
248.07+doubt
248.07+Dublin
248.08Arise, Land-under-Wave! Clap your lingua to your pallet, drop
248.08+Diarmuid was once loved by the daughter of the king of Land-Under-Wave
248.08+(clue #2; Motif: heliotrope) [.08-.10]
248.08+(description of articulation of 'trope' (or 'heliotrope'))
248.08+(clap tongue and drop jowl = T)
248.08+Italian lingua: tongue, language
248.08+palate
248.09your jowl with a jolt, tambourine until your breath slides, pet a
248.09+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...jolt...} | {Png: ...joit...}
248.09+(tambourine = RO)
248.09+(pet a pout = PE)
248.10pout and it's out. Have you got me, Allysloper?
248.10+Ally Sloper: character in Victorian comics
248.11     My top it was brought Achill's low, my middle I ope before
248.11+(clue #3; Motif: heliotrope) [.11-.14]
248.11+(face (of Helen of Troy), vagina, buttocks or feet) [.11-.12]
248.11+Motif: top/bottom [.12]
248.11+Achilles's weak point: heel (HEL)
248.11+Achill Island, County Mayo
248.11+IO
248.11+open
248.12you, my bottom's a vulser if ever there valsed and my whole the
248.12+(TROPE)
248.12+Colloquial bottom: buttocks
248.12+Latin vulsus: smooth, hairless
248.12+French valseur: waltzer, one who waltzes (French Slang buttocks, especially a woman's)
248.13flower that stars the day and is solly well worth your pilger's
248.13+'heliotrope' originally applied to sunflower
248.13+Latin aster: star
248.13+starts
248.13+Latin sol: sun
248.13+Colloquial jolly well: indeed (intensified)
248.13+German Pilgerfahrt: pilgrimage
248.14fahrt. Where there's a hitch, a head of things, let henker's halter
248.14+(clue #4; Motif: heliotrope) [.14-.15]
248.14+Motif: alliteration (h)
248.14+H (first letter of 'heliotrope')
248.14+(ELITE)
248.14+German Henker: hangman
248.14+halter: ROPE
248.15hang the halunkenend. For I see through your weapon. That
248.15+German Halunken: scoundrels
248.15+Slang weapon: penis
248.16cry's not Cucullus. And his eyelids are painted. If my tutor here
248.16+Latin proverb Cucullus non facit monachum: the hood does not make the monk (i.e. do not judge by appearances)
248.16+(clue #5; Motif: heliotrope) [.16]
248.16+(garbled version of 'heliotrope': his = H, eye = E, lids = LIOT, ar = R, e = O, pai = PE)
248.16+Motif: mixed gender (his eyelids painted)
248.16+VI.B.3.158o (b): 'painted eyelids'
248.16+Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 50: (in medieval Ireland) 'the crowds would grow silent and make a passage as some "high scholar of the western world" or "apostle of Erin" passed through them, a noble ascetic with long hair falling on his shoulders and painted eyelids'
248.16+Irish pilgrims at Abbey of Saint Gall had tattooed eyelids
248.17is cut out for an oldeborre I'm Flo, shy of peeps, you know. But
248.17+phrase cut a bore: drill a hole
248.17+Danish oldenborre: cockchafer, a type of beetle (Cluster: Insects)
248.17+old bore
248.17+German Floh: flea (Cluster: Insects)
248.17+peepers: people who peep (Slang eyes)
248.18when he beetles backwards, ain't I fly? Pull the boughpee to see
248.18+nursery rhyme Little Bo-peep [.18-.19]
248.18+beetle (Cluster: Insects)
248.18+Slang fly: cunning, artful, shrewd; (of women) wanton, sexually promiscuous
248.18+fly (Cluster: Insects)
248.18+bough
248.18+nursery rhyme Little Bo-peep [.17] [.19]
248.18+(voyeurism)
248.19how we sleep. Bee Peep! Peepette! Would you like that lump of
248.19+bee (Cluster: Insects)
248.19+nursery rhyme Little Bo-peep [.17-.18]
248.19+Swift: Ppt
248.20a tongue for lungeon or this Turkey's delighter, hys hyphen
248.20+luncheon
248.20+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...lungeon or...} | {Png: ...lungeon, or...}
248.20+Turkish delight
248.20+Cornish hys: length (of place or time), duration, longitude
248.20+Greek hys: pig
248.21mys? My bellyswain's a twalf whulerusspower though he knows
248.21+Greek mys: mouse
248.21+VI.B.29.085a (o): 'belly swain'
248.21+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 36: (quoting from Campion's Historie of Ireland about Prince John's following) 'Normans, great quaffers, lourdens, proud, belly swaines, fed with extortion and bribery'
248.21+Dutch twaalf: twelve
248.21+twelve horsepower
248.21+walrus
248.21+(impotence)
248.22as much how to man a wife as Dunckle Dalton of matching wools.
248.22+German dunkel: dark
248.22+uncle
248.22+daltonism: a common form of colour blindness (named after John Dalton, 18th-19th century English scientist)
248.23Shake hands through the thicketloch! Sweet swanwater! My
248.23+VI.B.29.085k (o): 'handshake through door'
248.23+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 60: (quoting Stanihurst about a handshake through a hole in the chapter-house door of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, in 1492, between the warring earls of Ormond and Kildare, leading to their reconciliation) 'there was a clift in the chapiter-house doore, pearsed at a trice, to the end both the earles should have shaken hands and be reconciled'
248.23+German Loch: hole
248.23+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...thicketloch! Sweet...} | {Png: ...thicketloch. Sweet...}
248.23+(anecdote about Sir Walter Raleigh's amorous escapade with a young maid whose initial mild protests of 'Sweet Sir Walter' were soon replaced by ecstatic moans of 'Swisser Swatter')
248.23+VI.B.29.094a (o): 'Swan Water'
248.23+W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 23: 'the delta or slobland formed at the confluence of the Swan Water, the Dodder and the Liffey was embanked and reclaimed in 1792'
248.23+Swan Water: subterranean river, Rathmines, Dublin
248.24other is mouthfilled. This kissing wold's full of killing fellows
248.24+world's
248.24+Slang killing: stylish, fashionable; wonderful
248.24+wood
248.25kneeling voyantly to the cope of heaven. And somebody's com-
248.25+VI.B.29.099i-j (b): 'cope of heaven kneeled unto'
248.25+W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 435: 'the Wardens of the Marches, the stern realities of whose life are vividly depicted in the spirited reply of Garret, Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy, to charges preferred against him in 1524 by Cardinal Wolsey:— "As touching my kingdom... I serve under the cope of heaven, when you are served under a canopy... when you are begraced and belorder, and crowched and kneeled unto, then I finde small grace with our Irish borderers, except I cut them off by the knees"'
248.25+valiantly
248.25+French voyant: showy, flashy; a seer, a visionary
248.25+voyeur
248.25+Motif: Copenhagen
248.26ing, I feel for a fect. I've a seeklet to sell thee if old Deanns won't
248.26+fact
248.26+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song I've a Secret to Tell Thee [air: Dennis, Don't Be Threatening; or, Oh! Southern Breeze]
248.26+The Dean: an epithet of Swift
248.27be threaspanning. When you'll next have the mind to retire to
248.27+trespassing
248.27+Archaic trepanning: entrapping, ensnaring, beguiling, cheating
248.27+trepanning: cutting a groove, boring a hole (using a special sawing or surgical tool called a trepan)
248.27+VI.B.29.097g (o): 'the mind to retire to be wicked'
248.27+W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 266: 'Archbishop King in a letter, dated 1725, published in Mant's History of the Church of Ireland:— "Glasnevin was the receptacle of thieves and rogues... when any couple had a mind to retire to be wicked there was their harbour"'
248.28be wicked this is as dainty a way as any. Underwoods spells bush-
248.28+VI.B.29.097f (o): 'As dainty a fine way'
248.28+W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 255: (of the road leading to Drumcondra) 'For hundreds of years this has been one of the principal highways leading out of the city, and so far back as 1634, a traveller wrote of it:— "As dainty a fine way as ever I rode, and a most pleasant country"'
248.28+VI.B.29.089b-c (o): 'bushments underwoods'
248.28+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 74: (quoting from Holinshed's Chronicles about the Pass of Glenmalure, Wicklow, in 1580) 'a vallie... between two hils, and no other waie is there to passe through. Underfoot it is boggie and soft... the sides are full of great and mightie trees upon the sides of the hils, and full of bushments and underwoods'
248.28+phrase business is business: business considerations take precedence over emotional or personal issues
248.28+Bushmen: members of the aboriginal San people of southern Africa
248.28+basement
248.28+Slang bush: pubic hair (especially a woman's)
248.29ment's business. So if you sprig poplar you're bound to twig this.
248.29+speak proper
248.29+German sprichst: (you) speak
248.29+(language of trees) [460.21]
248.29+Anglo-Irish Slang twig: to understand, know, notice, get the point
248.30'Twas my lord of Glendalough benedixed the gape for me that
248.30+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 50: (quoting from State Papers, vol. ii, part 3, p.181) 'my Lord of Dublin'
248.30+Saint Kevin's monastic settlement at Glendalough
248.30+Latin benedixit: has blessed
248.30+Slang gape: female genitalia [257.24]
248.31time at Long Entry, commanding the approaches to my intimast
248.31+VI.B.29.114e (o): 'Long Entry'
248.31+Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 46n: 'odd street names in Dublin, most of them still existing... Long Entry'
248.31+(sexual penetration)
248.31+VI.B.29.093d (o): 'commanding the approach to'
248.31+W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 10: (quoting from Sir Charles Hoare's Tour in Ireland about his arrival in 1806) 'he had to dismount from the vehicle and cross the bridge on foot, as it was considered to be in too dangerous a condition to drive over with a full vehicle. "There is nothing commanding in this approach to Dublin; a number of narrow passes and bridges barricadoed, still remind the traveller of the late rebellion"'
248.31+Latin intimus: innermost
248.31+most intimate
248.32innermost. Look how they're browthered! Six thirteens at Blanche
248.32+VI.B.29.092a (o): 'browdered (brodé)' (French brodé: embroidered)
248.32+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 228: (quoting from Stanihurst's Description of Dublin in 1577 in Holinshed's Chronicles about a Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity Sunday) celebration) 'The 'skynners, house-carpynders, tanners and browders' (embroiderers), were cast to represent the flight into Egypt'
248.32+Obsolete browdered: embroidered
248.32+brother
248.32+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...browthered! Six...} | {Png: ...browthered. Six...}
248.32+VI.B.29.091g (o): 'six thirteens (6/6)'
248.32+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 201: (mentioning a song) 'The coach cost 1s. 1d. for a set down... The strange-looking sum of 1s. 1d. represents the Irish shilling or 'thirteen,'... mention of which occurs in a once-popular street ballad, in the lines: 'I gave the Captain six thirteens To carry me over to Park Gate''
248.32+Anglo-Irish thirteen: shilling (after the 18th century Irish shilling, which was worth thirteen Irish copper pennies)
248.32+French Dialect blanche: marc, white brandy distilled from the residue (e.g. skins, pips) remaining in the winepress [249.03]
248.32+blanc de blanc: type of white wine or champagne made entirely from white grapes
248.32+Variants: {FnF, Vkg: 'Blanche' on .32} | {Png: 'Blanche' on .33}
248.33de Blanche's of 3 Behind Street and 2 Turnagain Lane. Awabeg
248.33+Motif: 2&3
248.33+VI.B.29.114h (o): 'Behind Street Turnagain Lane'
248.33+Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 46n: 'odd street names in Dublin, most of them still existing... Behind Street'
248.33+Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 46: 'King's Inns Street, so called from the adjoining King's Inns since 1797, was previously named Turnagain Lane, apparently from the curve in the centre of the street. But old Turnagain Lane long appears on the maps as made only to Loftus Lane, where one had to turn again. The rest of the present King's Inns Street as far as Britain Street was then covered by fields' [.07]
248.33+(possibly clue #6, but largely undeciphered; Motif: heliotrope) [.33-.35]
248.33+(somehow H or HE?)
248.33+Irish Abha Beig: Little River
248.33+Variants: {FnF, Vkg: 'Awabeg' on .33} | {Png: 'Awabeg' on .34}
248.34is my callby, Magnus here's my Max, Wonder One's my cipher
248.34+(somehow EL or L?)
248.34+(one, cipher = one, zero = 10 = IO)
248.34+Variants: {FnF, Vkg: 'cipher' on .34} | {Png: 'cipher' on .35}
248.35and Seven Sisters is my nighbrood. Radouga, Rab will ye na
248.35+Seven Sisters: district of London
248.35+(somehow TROPE?)
248.35+neighbourhood
248.35+Russian raduga: rainbow
248.35+German Rabe: raven
248.35+François Rabelais: 16th century French writer
248.35+Proverbs 13:17: 'the ravens shall pick out their eyes'
248.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg: 'na' on .35} | {Png: 'na' on .36}
248.36pick them in their pink of panties. You can colour up till you're
248.36+


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